SpartaSXr said:We need people in Lansing to do more about loud motorcycle exhaust first. When that is acomplished ( or hell freezes over ) then there might be a position for them to bitch about snowmobiles. I do not look forward to summer, the bikes are ridiculous period !
If you owned a Harley or road bike of some sort you would know that "Loud Pipes Save Lives" on the road and that "Looking Twice Saves Lives"
Bikers are hard to see as it is because people who aren't "in tune" with the "biker lifestyle".
I can't tell you how many of my friends (that have been riding for years) are heading to work on their bike (trying to save a buck in gas) that have had someone not looking twice pull out in front of them and bamm. Over the car they go.
I will NEVER support regulating Harley and Bike exhausts.
BUT I WILL SUPPORT Common sense in the biker community and responsibility in the driving comunity. Coming strait off the head with a 6 inch head pipe pointed at the ground is not smart. Coming strait back with a free flow exhaust system and a set of glass packed tips makes the bike plenty loud enough to be heard coming down the road, and you don't have to hear them for 25 miles.
If you want to regulate Bike exhausts, Teach people to look twice and teach them how to look for motorcyclists and then they wont need that loud exhaust.
I fully agree with the post above. We the harley people don't drive on private property destroying their land or wakeing them up at 2 am in the morning. I would not care if they even put a time say from 12:00 am till 6 am that would be quiet time. That still gives you 18hrs. of driving. Spend more time on the trails & less time in the bars. Drink all you want when you put the sleds away.
Banks53 said:
Speaking from experience, I always ride as if I'm invisible and expect the worst. It isn't full-proof but I think relying on loud pipes cost lives. Also relying on driver education is dangerous. Kind of like relying on hand signals when sledding.
IMO - using the "loud pipes saves lives" arguement is just an excuse for pissing on your neighbor's right to hold a conversation in his own back yard. And to get back to the point of this thread, using the "loud pipes saves lives" really crumbles when applied to snowmobiles and instead - IMO - is pissing on land owners generosity of allowing trails across THIER land.
Word!
If you really want to do something to heighten driver awarness of motorcyclist's lobby your lawmakers to increase penalties when there are accidents with motorcycles and the auto driver is at fault. Kinda like the increased fines and jail terms for injuring or killing road workers.
I like to rock out inside my car, it doesn't matter how loud the pipes, the sirens or the women scream for my body. I ain't gonna hear them. I just have to be careful and keep an eye out for all three.
If you really want to do something to heighten driver awarness of motorcyclist's lobby your lawmakers to increase penalties when there are accidents with motorcycles and the auto driver is at fault. Kinda like the increased fines and jail terms for injuring or killing road workers.
I like to rock out inside my car, it doesn't matter how loud the pipes, the sirens or the women scream for my body. I ain't gonna hear them. I just have to be careful and keep an eye out for all three.